Radiohead’s ‘Lotus Flower’ choreographer: ‘Thom Yorke is an incredible dancer’
The choreographer behind Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s dancing in the band’s ‘Lotus Flower’ video has hailed the singer as an “incredible dancer”.
Some fans of the band believed that Yorke’s dancing in the video was improvised. However Wayne McGregor, the resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet as well as the director of his own company, Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, said the performance was “absolutely choreographed”.
“I’ve looked at the comments and it’s really interesting, the debate that it’s caused,” he told Time Out. “Whether it is choreography, whether it’s just someone dancing to music – all those things about authenticity of action, they’re all [questions] of authenticity we’re engaged in all the time.”
McGregor – who also revealed that he became involved with the video at Yorke’s request as the two share mutual friends – added: “I honestly think he’s an incredible dancer.” The video is available to watch on YouTube.
Radiohead first released their latest album ‘The King Of The Limbs’ on February 18 as a digital download, while the physical ‘newspaper album’ was released on Monday following the CD release.
Source: NME
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Jonny Greenwood Interview for Focus Knack Magazine
There is a new interview with Jonny Greenwood in the Belgian magazine “Focus Knack”. The interview focuses on the Norwegian Wood soundtrack, there are some interesting Radiohead- related things as well.
Fragments in English
There is a new interview with Jonny Greenwood in the Belgian magazine “Focus Knack”, a mag about culture, music, film, art,… It’s mostly about his Norwegian Wood- score, but he also said some interesting Radiohead- related things. I will not translate the whole article (a bit too long for that), but I’ll post the most interesting things below.
– When Tran Anh Hung asked Jonny to compose this score, Jonny refused because he was busy with the new Radiohead- album (tkol). Only when Hung kept asking him, he agreed.
– Jonny’s fondness of film scores is partly a result of the fact that he was searching for the boundaries of pop music with Radiohead.
– After spending so much time with classical music, Jonny fell in love with the guitar again. It almost feels like a brand new instrument when working in the studio with the band. The members of Radiohead used to be scared of real musicians because they’re not classicaly educated and you don’t write pop songs on paper.
– You hear trumpets and strings on The King of Limbs, and they’ll definitively use more types of classical instruments in the future.
– It’s not Jonny’s fault the King of Limbs took 3 years to make. “If you think I’m the difficult one of the band, you’re wrong. Thom is the perfectionist. If it was up to me, we’d bring out a new Radiohead- album every year. But maybe it’s good Thom deliberates everything that long. The albums don’t get worse because of it.”
– In writing a song, Thom normally gives the conversion. He writes the lyrics or half the song and the rest complement it.”
Source: Waste-Central, Atease Forum and brasilioteque
Jonny Greenwood is performing live with the BBC Orchestra on May 20th and 21st.
Jonny Greenwood & BBC Orchestra
English: Jonny said: “I think they’re proud and a bit interested. No, they don’t come to the concerts, but they ask for recordings. I tell them it’s not the same.“
Español: “Yo creo que ellos (los otros miembros de Radiohead) están orgullosos e interesados con mi trabajo como compositor para BBC Orquestra. Aunque no van a mis conciertos, igual me piden las grabaciones, pero yo les digo que no es lo mismo.”
Jonny Greenwood’s classical piece Doghouse premiered in London last…y Thanks At Ease !!
On May 20 and 21, Wordless Music presents the U.S. premiere of Doghouse, the longest and largest work yet for orchestra by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, on a program with the first New York City performance of Philip Glass / David Bowie / Brian Eno’s Symphony No. 4 (“Heroes,” based on the music of Bowie and Eno) and György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto, all performed by Ensemble Signal with the Wordless Music Orchestra and conductor Brad Lubman. Tickets for the May 20 and May 21 concerts at the New York Society for Ethical Culture are now on sale and going fast.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Ensemble Signal with the Wordless Music Orchestra (Brad Lubman, conductor)
Jonny Greenwood: Doghouse, for large orchestra and string trio (2010) (U.S. premiere)
György Ligeti: Chamber Concerto, for thirteen instrumentalists (1969-70)
Philip Glass / David Bowie / Brian Eno: Symphony No. 4 (“Heroes,” based on music of Eno and Bowie) (1996) (New York premiere)
Tickets on sale now: (May 20 show) (May 21 show)
New York Society for Ethical Culture
7pm doors / 8pm show / all ages / $25-35 tickets with $5 service charge
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FAC Interview with Radiohead’s Ed O’brien
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien has described the recent approach to tackling piracy, which included last year’s discussions around the Digital Economy Bill, as “confusing”.
In an interview with 6 Music, Featured Artists Coalition members O’Brien and Billy Bragg also discussed plans to create a more level playing field for artists and music industry employees, claiming people should be paying less for music.
“People will pay less for stuff, less for albums, it should be easier to licence….we need to get this licensing sorted out,” O’Brien told 6 Music.
Bragg also admitted that peer to peer file sharing was not necessarily a bad thing.
“There is some advantage for artists if they can work with that spirit,” he said.
Hear the interview below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20110504_fac.shtml
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Radiohead News for this past week #1 (Weekly Recap)
Here is a recap of news on Radiohead from this past week.
Monday May 2nd, 2011 – Stanley Donwood interview with Pitchfork.com here
Tuesday May 3rd, 2011 – Radiohead The King of Limbs live from the basement airs on BBC July 1st here
Tuesday May 3rd, 2011 – Stanley Donwood blog post here
Wednesday May 4th, 2011 – The e-Universal Sigh is released here
Wednesday May 4th, 2011 – Stanley Donwood blog post here
Wednesday May 4th, 2011 – Thom Yorke and Flying Lotus DJ at Low End Theory here
Thursday May 5th, 2011 – New ‘Office Chart’ post on Dead Air Space here
I think the biggest story this week would have to be that The King Of Limbs will be performed live for BBC and will air on July 1st. Followed by Thom DJ’ing at the Low End Theory in Los Angeles with Flying Lotus, and the ‘Office Chart’ posted was the first one since February 11th of this year before The King of Limbs was announced. The King Of Limbs was announced on February 14th (Valentine’s Day).
I posted all of the videos from the newest ‘Office Chart’ as well as several videos from Thom’s set at Low End Theory.
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New Office Chart posted on Radiohead.com (Saturday May 7th, 2011) on Dead Air Space
There was a new “Office Chart” posted today by Thom Yorke (Saturday May 7th, 2011) on Dead Air Space:
07 May
office chart against antimatter
impossible knots and accidental adventures
1. stolen dog Burial
2. carol ann Soft Machine
3. chant to mother earth BLO
4. lowe Brokenchord
5. paradise circus Massive Attack
6. are you ready? Aloe Blacc
7. vibrations(alternate) Mono_Poly
8. another girl Jaques Greene
9. guilty Billie Holiday
You can listen to all of these songs here I tried to post these on this page, though it messed up the layout of the site. Any suggestions on how I could post these on here a better way?
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Thom Yorke to DJ with Flying Lotus at Low End Theory!
Looks like Thom Yorke and Flying Lotus are set to DJ tonight at Low End Theory in Los Angeles. They both appeared at this same club about 2 months ago. This took place on Wednesday night.
This message was sent out by Flying Lotus on Twitter at around 2:10 am EST (May 4th, 2011)
@flyinglotus “About to Dj with thom yorke at @lowendtheory808″
and this message was sent around 2 hours later:
“That was fun.. Felt like it was over just when I started getting into it. Didn’t even get to drop the tunes i reallllly wanted to. Next time”
Reports said that both Reckoner and Bloom were played as well as some other Radiohead songs that were remixed.
Here is another video from last night http://yfrog.com/5bfv2ez
Chieftan Mews Tweets
He sent out 3 messages today around 11:40 am EST
He sent the message “IMS MENOO” to Flying Lotus, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and …….. Gary Busey…
“@flyinglotus : IMS MENOO”
“@flea333 : IMS MENOO”
“@THEGaryBusey : IMS MENOO ␄”
It also appears that Thom DJ’ed last night as well. (May 3rd, 2011)
Friends Without A Border Benefit event for Japan called
A friend of FILTER’s spotted Mr. Thom Yorke at a charity event last night while he was DJing. During a Friends Without A Border benefit event at the Roosevelt Hotel for Japan called, Restaurants for Relief, Thom Yorke was spotted DJing the event along with Robyn and Nigel Godrich.It has also been reported that Yorke was “jumping up and down” a lot when Robyn spun House of Pain’s “Jump Around.”The event was to raise money for tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan and had specialty cuisine by Nobu Matsuhisa, Wolkgang Punk, Mako Tanaka, Tim Goodell and Hideo Yamashiro.You can learn more abou Friends Without A Border and donate to the cause, Right Here.
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